Senior Backend Engineer, Infrastructure

Ro•New York, NY

1d•$182,300 - $220,000

About The Position

At Ro, our mission is to provide world-class healthcare by putting patients first - and that mission depends on reliable, secure, and scalable systems. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the infrastructure team, youâ€™ll sit at the core of that effort: contributing to the reliability of our production systems, hardening infrastructure and building tools that empower our engineers to ship safely and confidently. You will work across teams to drive uptime, performance and observability â€“ partnering closely with product and security engineers. From designing resilient systems to shaping incident response practices, this is a role for engineers who thrive on impact and care deeply about operational excellence.

Requirements

Solid cross-functional communication, able to collaborate with product, platform, security and other teams
Strong software development skills, using Go, Python, or other modern programming languages
An operational mindset that puts reliability and resilience as a core product requirement
A mission-driven attitude, motivated by the opportunity to make healthcare better.
Experience operating distributed services in production
Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform
Experience with observability practices, such as using metrics, logging, tracing in Datadog

Responsibilities

Design and implement resilient infrastructure to support high availability at scale
Build and contribute to developer tools that streamline deployment, monitoring and recovery of systems
Partner with engineering teams to bake best practices for reliability, resilience and observability into services
Automate infrastructure workflows using IaC and other cloud native tools
Contribute to our culture of operational excellence, guiding engineers through reliability practices and raising the bar across the engineering org